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Edward Capriolo commented on CASSANDRA-6704:
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The argument that blocking cql queries that do aggregations and thus are the
same thing as scanners is wrong. The argument that custom udfs are the same
thing as scanners is also wrong.
Scanners will give us the ability to do a special client server side paging not
possible in a blocking query language.
Additionally it is giving a simple way to do all these open tickets which
speaks volumes to this implementation.
The 2006 scanner approach is a valid one. It is a good technical solution and
having that solution can only be a win. If other approaches are better clearly
they would have been implemented by now.
> Create wide row scanners
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>
> Key: CASSANDRA-6704
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6704
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Edward Capriolo
> Assignee: Edward Capriolo
>
> The BigTable white paper demonstrates the use of scanners to iterate over
> rows and columns.
> http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en/us/archive/bigtable-osdi06.pdf
> Because Cassandra does not have a primary sorting on row keys scanning over
> ranges of row keys is less useful.
> However we can use the scanner concept to operate on wide rows. For example
> many times a user wishes to do some custom processing inside a row and does
> not wish to carry the data across the network to do this processing.
> I have already implemented thrift methods to compile dynamic groovy code into
> Filters as well as some code that uses a Filter to page through and process
> data on the server side.
> https://github.com/edwardcapriolo/cassandra/compare/apache:trunk...trunk
> The following is a working code snippet.
> {code}
> @Test
> public void test_scanner() throws Exception
> {
> ColumnParent cp = new ColumnParent();
> cp.setColumn_family("Standard1");
> ByteBuffer key = ByteBuffer.wrap("rscannerkey".getBytes());
> for (char a='a'; a < 'g'; a++){
> Column c1 = new Column();
> c1.setName((a+"").getBytes());
> c1.setValue(new byte [0]);
> c1.setTimestamp(System.nanoTime());
> server.insert(key, cp, c1, ConsistencyLevel.ONE);
> }
>
> FilterDesc d = new FilterDesc();
> d.setSpec("GROOVY_CLASS_LOADER");
> d.setName("limit3");
> d.setCode("import org.apache.cassandra.dht.* \n" +
> "import org.apache.cassandra.thrift.* \n" +
> "public class Limit3 implements SFilter { \n " +
> "public FilterReturn filter(ColumnOrSuperColumn col,
> List<ColumnOrSuperColumn> filtered) {\n"+
> " filtered.add(col);\n"+
> " return filtered.size()< 3 ? FilterReturn.FILTER_MORE :
> FilterReturn.FILTER_DONE;\n"+
> "} \n" +
> "}\n");
> server.create_filter(d);
>
>
> ScannerResult res = server.create_scanner("Standard1", "limit3", key,
> ByteBuffer.wrap("a".getBytes()));
> Assert.assertEquals(3, res.results.size());
> }
> {code}
> I am going to be working on this code over the next few weeks but I wanted to
> get the concept our early so the design can see some criticism.
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